| | Imperial flag (Russia, 1858-1883) |
 | | Hence the flag intended for unrestricted use was rarely seen in prerevolutionary Russia, while the flag restricted to special occasions was in fact the most likely to be hoisted whenever private citizens wished to express their nationality by displaying a flag on land. |
 | | Black and yellow were the Imperial colors; the white stripe was added to distinguish this flag from the Imperial Austrian "Reich" and war flag, which was a fl-yellow horizontal bicolor. |
 | | In a previous program (on Russian TV channel Kulhtura) was shown a very intersting flag: the well known “imperial flag”, with fl, golden and white stripes, bearing centrally a red shield charged with a golden capital hand-written cyrillic "E" and crowned imperial, standing for Ekaterina (russian for Catherine). |
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